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Online Postwar European Online Postwar European History Web Sites:History Web Sites:

European Digital & Public European Digital & Public Digital HistoryDigital History

Serge NoiretSerge Noiret

European University InstituteEuropean University Institute

S.Noiret: Online Postwar European History Web Sites 21/04/23

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““Digital history is an approach to examining and Digital history is an approach to examining and representing the past that takes advantage of representing the past that takes advantage of

new communication technologies such as new communication technologies such as computers and the Web. It draws on essential computers and the Web. It draws on essential

features of the digital realm, such as databases, features of the digital realm, such as databases, hypertextualization, and networks, to create and hypertextualization, and networks, to create and

share historical knowledge….”share historical knowledge….”

CHNM, George Mason University

Digital HistoryDigital History


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Digital HistoryDigital History

•A discipline, a method, a branch or sub-A discipline, a method, a branch or sub-field within the field within the Digital Humanities

•Web History: Web History: using web sites as primary sources

•The Internet Archive The Internet Archive Way Back Machine


Library Web Sites Contents ?Web Sites Contents ?


Virtual Exhibitions Digital Public

History

Digital History 2.0Digital History 2.0

Digital Libraries


Library Web Site Categories

Digital Libraries Archives, Meta-Archives, Invented

Archives and Born Digital Sources European Associations &

Organizations European Portals Public History and European Memory



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1.Digital Libraries



Library TEL - European Library


The European Library represents Europe in all the

colours of its cultural heritage.

Being owned by the Council of Europe public institutions

guarantees its long-term preservation.

Furthermore, quality and

reliability are guaranteed. All

content has been selected and

categorised by experts who have

done this work over centuries and

centuries: Europe’s national librarians.


Library Europeana

“Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual

collections. It promotes discovery

and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can

engage, share in and be inspired by the

rich diversity of Europe's cultural and

scientific heritage”


Library EU Bookshop


“Managed by the Publications Office of the

European Union, EU Bookshop gives you online access to the European

Union’s official publications.

Books, brochures, posters, maps, leaflets, technical documents, periodicals,

CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc. – on the European Union's

activities and policies.

Publications issued by the European Union institutions

and other official bodies since 1952 (new titles are

added every day).”


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2.Archives, Meta-Archives, Invented Archives and Born

Digital Sources

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Library EC Historical Archives


The mission of the Historical

Archives Service,

created in 1983, is to conserve, manage and

make available for further use

the Commission historical archives

.


Library AHUE - HAEU



Library DORIE


Dorie is intended for a specialised audience

interested in European institutional matters. It is a collection of documents put together over the years by

the European Commission for its own purposes. The

documents concern EU institutions and decision-making processes, and

various intergovernmental conferences (including the

2002-03 constitutional convention) that have made

changes to the founding treaties.


Library Eur-Lex

EUR-Lex provides free access to European Union law and other documents considered to be public.

The website is available in 23 official languages of the

European Union; the contents of the site amount

to some 2 815 000 documents with texts

dating back to 1951. The database is updated daily and every year around 12 000 documents are added.

You can find issues of the EU Official Journal by

browsing or by searching. All issues from 1998 onwards are in PDF


Library European Archive


The European Archive is a digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. Based in Amsterdam and Paris, the European Archive is a non-profit foundation working towards universal access to all knowledge as publicly accessible as possible.

With the technical support of the Internet Archive and XS4ALL, the European Archive has installed a repository with 250 terabytes (250 000 giga-bytes) capacity in Amsterdam via

which a large collection digital material (text, music, moving images, software) can be accessed.


Library OstDok: Osteuropadokumente im Open Access


Digital Primary Sources for Central and Eastern Europa: “OstDok entsteht mit Förderung der Deutschen forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Die Plattform wird in die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Osteuropa als eigenständiges Modul integriert und das dort bereits vorhandene Volltextangebot wesentlich erweitern. OstDok wird in Kooperation der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek mit dem Collegium Carolinum in München, dem Herder-Institut in Marburg und dem Osteuropa-Institut in Regensburg aufgebaut.”


Library World Digital Library: Europe

The World Digital Library (WDL)

makes available on the Internet,

free of charge and in

multilingual format, significant primary materials

from countries and cultures

around the world.


Library European Union History


The History Institute at the University of Leiden provides all sorts of information regarding the history of the European Union. The historical documents section contains nearly all information about European Integration from 1945 - present available online. It includes (references to) a unique collection of audiovisual fragments, documents, pictures and a dedicated collection about specific themes.


Library Archives of European Integration


The Archive of European Integration (AEI) was initiated and created by Dr. Phil Wilkin, Social Sciences Bibliographer, University Library

System, University of Pittsburgh, AEI Editor, and Dr. Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences,

Institute of Technology Assessment, Vienna, Austria, a managing editor of the European Research Papers Archive, dedicated to the collection of full text materials on European

integration.

Since the creation of the AEI in February 2003, the University

Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh, USA, has provided the technical and material support for

the AEI.


Library EuroDocs


The Hyperlinks connect to European primary

historical documents that are transcribed,

reproduced in facsimile, or translated. The order

of documents is chronological wherever

possible.These are open access sources maintained by

Richard Hacken, European Studies

Bibliographer,Harold B. Lee Library,

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah,

USA


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3.European Associations & Organizations



Library ISHA: International Students of History

Association



Library Changing Europe Doctoral Summer School


Each year the Changing Europe Summer School brings together 20 to 30 young

academics (i.e. mainly doctoral students from disciplines like political science, economics,

sociology, social anthropology, law, geography and history) working on issues related to

countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Participation in the

Summer School gives them a chance to present and discuss

their research projects and to get better integrated into the academic community.


Library EuroClio



Library European Union Liaison Committee of Historians

The European Union Liaison Committee of Historians came into being in 1982 as a result of an important international symposium that the Commission had organized in Luxembourg to launch historical research on European integration. The committee is composed of historians of the European Union member countries who work on contemporary history


Library RICHIE



Library HEIRS



Library CLIOH.Net and CLIOH.Net2



Library Clioh-World



Library CLIOHRES.net



Library eHLEE


Library European Museums, ICOM


“As places of individual, social and cultural memory, museums

in Europe can participate in reflecting the past for the benefit of the present and the future. To thrive for peace, regarding the long record of European warfare, by dealing with its causes, by commemorating its victims and by giving the survivors a chance to reflect their experiences for the coming generations is an essential and ongoing commitment of European museums. “

Not a plan to promote digital museum to support this goal


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4. European (History) Portals



Library MICHAEL


Through the multilingual MICHAEL service you can find and explore digital collections from museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across Europe. The projects focus on the integration of national initiatives in digitisation of the cultural heritage and interoperability between national cultural portals to promote access to digital contents from museums,

libraries and archives.


Library European Integration database


Since 1987, this site is a joint project by the Archivists of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the European Union. It provides in the form of a guide, summary details of the various collections

as well as, selected bibliography and studies strictly related to the collections concerning the process for European co-operation and integration, from 1945 to 1973 (first enlargement to the EU). Hyperlinks makes it possible to get in touch directly with the individual National Archives which physically houses the collection.


Library Euro - Archives


WEBliography about the

introduction of the EURO the 1st of January

2002


Library European Sources Online


ESO is an online database and information service which provides access to thousands of expertly selected, well known and less well known websites, documents and publications from the EU and other international organisations, national governments, think tanks, stakeholder organisations, working papers etc, full text articles from the Financial Times, plus bibliographic records to key academic textbooks and periodical articles, and a series of unique Information Guides compiled by the ESO Editorial Team.


Library Driver: Digital repository Infrastructure Vision

for European Research


Access the network of freely accessible digital repositories

with content across academic disciplines with over 2,500,000

scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations,

books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 249 repositories, from 33 countries. DRIVER is networking European Scientific Open Access Repositories


Library ViFaOst


As a Virtual Library for Eastern Europe, ViFaOst is an interdisciplinary portal for East European Studies. Comprehensive search possibilities enable access

to specialized academic information on history, language, literature, politics and culture of East, Central Eastand South East European countries and regions.


Library DART Europe, e-thesis portal

“DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. “


Library EHPS Portal


European History Primary Sources (EHPS), an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitised primary sources on the history of Europe. Each website that is listed in EHPS has a short description and is categorised according to country, language, period, subject and type of source. The portal can be searched in a variety of ways. The listed websites can be accessed for free, though sometimes a registration is required.”


Library UNESCO Archive Portal

The UNESCO Archives Portal gives access to websites of archival institutions around the world. It is also a gateway to resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area. With the Archives Portal, UNESCO provides a single interactive access point to information for archivists and users of archives worldwide. Visitors to the UNESCO Archives Portal can browse through pre-established categories or search for specific words. See here: “Primary Sources Online”


Library Western European Studies



Library European Integration History



Library EuroInternet



Library Intute


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5.European Public History and European Memory



Library ENA: European navigator



Library Inventing Europe


"Europe, Interrupted" is a collaboration between historians and museums to tell stories about the way technology has helped and hindered the circulation of people, things and ideas in modern Europe. To do this, we have developed a "virtual exhibition", called Europe interrupted, a multimedia web environment that combines text and visual material from a wide range of sources throughout Europe. In addition, the site allows you to explore the stories further by finding related content on other websites.


Library Imagined Europeans (Humboldt)



Library Museum of Europe



Library European Memories


The European Memories project invites all European citizens, men and women of every age and cultural origin, to send in their stories. The archive consists of three areas; each area can include different themes and topics: Stories of European Inhabitants, Yesterday and Today; History, culture and traditions of Europe seen through the lens of personal experiences. “


Library Parallel Archive

Parallel Archive (PA) is an "invented" archive repository

accessible for everybody wishing to upload primary sources for the history of Communism, the Cold War, and their Afterlife. It is developed by the Open Society Archives (OSA)

at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

PA is, "at once a personal scholarly workspace,

a collaborative research environment, and a digital repository".


Library MEMORO



Library European History Online - Institut für

Europäische Geschichte, Mainz


Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO) is an online

European transcultural history composed of

multimedia knowledge items encompassing the period

from 1450 to 1950. EGO is methodologically pragmatic,

international and interdisciplinary.


Library Digital Atlas: Europe after 1500



Library Online “shared” European History ?

• “Le livre est identique dans les versions allemande et française tant au niveau de la présentation que du contenu. […] Il ne s'agit aucunement d'un livre sur les relations franco-allemandes: ce manuel traite prioritairement de l'histoire européenne en intégrant les thèmes les plus importants de l'histoire mondiale. Les sujets sont traités du double point de vue de l'Allemagne et de la France.”

• La rédaction du manuel a été confiée à une équipe d'auteurs franco-allemande, tous historiens et enseignants. Chaque chapitre est confié à un binôme d'auteurs (un auteur allemand et un auteur français) travaillant en étroite collaboration sur chaque sujet ce qui favorise la confrontation des points de vue et des perspectives. […]”


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